Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Michael Biebl]Why do you think, debhelper is not the correct place to handle this? Imho it would be fairly easy to write a debhelper command for this. Another way would be, to make dpkg smarter about such cases. As you want to write a special utility for this, how would you hook this up into the install/upgrade process? If you have to edit maintainer scripts again, you haven't gained a lot imho.What API should be provided? I assume the script name and the version it was removed would be enough? Something like 'dh_obsolete /etc/init/oldfile 1.0.0-1', perhaps? One entry per file?
Something like this, yeah. And optionally a third parameter if a conffile has been moved.
dh_obsolete /etc/bar.conf 1.0.0.-1 /etc/bar/bar.confdh_obsolete sounds a bit weird in that case, so suggestions for better names are welcome.
Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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